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...Having lived in Europe for the past eighteen months I am prepared to duck from June until September as the thundering herd of tourists (probably quite a few as a result of your article) sweeps through Europe this summer. JAMES M. KYLE Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. c/o Postmaster New York City...
...first letters for J.V. hockey, as recommended by the Undergraduate Council, were awarded last week. Eighteen players including Captain Denny French received numerals, while the manager's award went to Howie Glaser. And for the first time in Harvard hockey history one player, Dick Allen, received a varsity letter and a J.V. leter. The J.V. team finished with a 5-5 record...
Even Frenchmen inured to the back biting and cynical misbehavior of their politicos were shocked last week by a sensational trial in Paris. Eighteen months ago André Baranès, a devious little Tunisian newspaperman and police informer, was arrested for transmitting vital French defense secrets to a Communist newspaper publisher. Baranés claimed he had got the information from two assistants of respected, 50-year-old Jean Mons, secretary general of the Defense Committee (France's rough equivalent of the U.S.'s National Security Council). Last week, as the trial of Mons, Baran...
Perfume of Exhaust Fumes. Frenchbred Lilly was "just eighteen when I stood (for the first time) at the corner of 34th Street and Broadway" and "breathed in the perfume of exhaust fumes . . . sweeter to me than the headiest essences of the flower fields of France." Few of the natives shared this preference for exhaust fumes, so Lilly was obliged to go to work cultivating the headier essences, and is now a rich, renowned and happily married hatter-"Lilly Dache from 9 to 5 and Mrs. [Jean] Despres from 5 to 9." Both personalities have contributed to this book...
...eighteen colleges the Crimson is rated eleventh, just under Yale. When the two teams met last Saturday, Yale won 22 to 8, for their twenty-second consecutive victory over the Crimson. Princeton is rated fourth in the tournament, behind host-team Lehigh...